Proceedings of the first international conference on simulation of adaptive behavior on From animals to animats
A case study in the behavior-oriented design of autonomous agents
SAB94 Proceedings of the third international conference on Simulation of adaptive behavior : from animals to animats 3: from animals to animats 3
Adaptive Behavior
Robot Learning and Self-Sufficiency: What the Energy-Level Can Tell Us about a Robot's Performance
EWLR-6 Proceedings of the 6th European Workshop on Learning Robots
A Multiagent System Based on Heterogeneous Robots
CRW '98 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Collective Robotics
IJCAI'91 Proceedings of the 12th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
The artificial life roots of artificial intelligence
Artificial Life
The VUB AI-lab RoboCup'99 Small League Team
RoboCup-99: Robot Soccer World Cup III
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The paper describes the VUB AI-Lab team competing in the small robots league of RoboCup '98 in Paris. The approach of this team targets for a longterm evolution of different robots, team-structures, and concepts. Therefore, the efforts for the '98 participation focus on the provision of a flexible architecture, which forms a basis for this goal. In doing so, the development of the so-called RoboCube constitutes a milestone on this road. The RoboCube is an extremely compact robot controller providing quite some computation power, memory, various I/O interfaces, and radio communication. It facilitates the use of many sensors and effectors, including their on-board processing, allowing to explore a large space of different robots and team set-ups. Accordingly, the '98 VUB AI-Lab team consists of heterogeneous robots. The paper describes their important electromechanical features like drive units and shooting mechanisms. In addition, the radio communication, the basic control algorithms and the global vision system are described. Last but not least, first steps towards a general coordination scheme are explained, which is meant to cope with changing compositions of heterogeneous groups.